Tag: international relations

Taipei and Manila used to view Beijing’s threats separately. The two issues have now joined.

The growing tension in the Asia-Pacific region makes it time for Filipinos to start to worry about possible war

The agreement to expand cooperation in "strategic areas of the country" was made during a visit by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

“Preserving regional security has become a key consensus shared by national leaders”

The defense department said it had directed the armed forces "to strengthen the country's presence in the West Philippine Sea"

The EU billed its first full summit with the ASEAN as a chance to push trade relations with the region's fast-growing economies

The releases came just days after Indonesian President Joko Widodo assumed the rotating presidency of ASEAN

"Being responsible means creating not zero-sum situations, being responsible here also means that we must end the war," Widodo said

Leaders from the ASEAN will discuss ways to implement a peace plan agreed with Myanmar last year which the junta has so far ignored

The fishing ground, tapped by generations of Filipinos, is one of many potential flashpoints for military conflict over the South China Sea